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12-09-2013

Millstone Monday – Week 1

Welcome to the first week of Millstone Mondays!

 

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Hoping to  spread some holiday cheer with my quilt friends, I am doing a giveaway each Monday for the month of December! Millstone Quilts and Aurifil are helping me out.

Millstone Quilts is a local quilt shop here in Virginia. If you are ever nearby it is a must-stop quilt shop!

Their shop is in an actual old mill and has such a great atmosphere with a super friendly and helpful staff. On my last visit they kindly offered me some goodies to share!

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Millstone Quilts

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Those of you who have been visiting for a while already know about my new love for Aurifil thread!

After sharing with Aurifil how much I loved their product they sent me some goodies to share with you guys too. So for some extra holiday happiness…I am throwing in some of that!

Here is what we have today:

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A charm pack in Snap Pop by Sandy Gervais and a 10 piece, 100% cotton, 50wt. thread set in Eat Your Fruits n’ Veggies by Pat Sloan.

Here’s how to enter:

Just leave a comment below telling me what the number one thing that makes you love(or not love) your local quilt shop!

Mine….no super skinny cuts! Please give me and inch or two extra for squaring up:)

Feel free to share this post on Facebook or if you have your own blog using the Millstone Mondays button on the right sidebar. Spread the quilty love!

Contest ends Sunday@12pm and is open internationally.

Keep it Sassy♥

You can find and follow TheSassyQuilter here on Facebook, Pinterest, Bloglovin’, or by email(form on right sidebar)!

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12-05-2013

Handmade Happiness!

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 Whew, it has been too long!  My wonderful(not so sassy) quilt weekend turned into being sick and laying on the couch the whole entire time:( But…I am feeling better now and glad to be back. I was able to get a couple things done, made a few HST’s and finally hung up this super cute print for my sewing room. I won a couple of these in July and am just now getting them up! I think happiness really is homemade, you have to create it yourself and not just wait for it to happen to you.

**ALERT**

Cutest fabric ever!

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I have had my eye on this adorable print and finally took the plunge.

It is Kokka French Bulldog in mint, a Japanese import Oxford Cotton. Kinda pricey…8.00 for a half yard.

And I won one of the 160 giveaways I entered in the Giving Thanks Blog Hop at Quilting Gallery:)

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The cutest FQ prints from Sharon at Fabrics and Flowers. Thanks Sharon!

They are from the Handle with Care by Suzy Ultman. Look at this amazing quilt she is working on! I am in love with these borders.fabricsandflowers.blogspot.com

This really inspires me to not be so lazy when doing my borders:)

Christmas fun coming Soon!

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Millstone Quilts, one of my local quilt shops, was generous to donate some charm packs to The Sassy Quilter to share!

So for the rest of December I am hosting a giveaway each Monday. I also have some yummy Aurifil goodness to share! So be sure to check in each Monday to win a little of both.

I will make these giveaways super easy to enter….no hoops:) These treats will definitely bring some holiday cheer!

Keep it Sassy♥

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11-21-2013

Giveaway ~ Giving Thanks Blog Hop!

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I am participating in the Giving Thanks Blog Hop Party @ Quilting Gallery and just want to say thanks to all of my sassy friends who make this blog so much fun! I have made so many wonderful quilty friends and am so thankful to get to know each of you and that you are willing to be a part of my quilt story and share yours with me!

Blog Hop Party with Give-Aways

There is a big party over there today so be sure to check it out and enter all the cool giveaways by clicking on the party button.

Cotton Bliss is sponsoring the giveaway here at The Sassy Quilter and offering not one, but

2 charm packs of your choice!!!

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And as an added Thank You for everyone, Cotton Bliss is offering a coupon code for

10% off your purchase and free US shipping for orders over $50!

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To enter>>> all you have to do is leave a comment telling me one way you follow TheSassyQuilter or CottonBliss.

You can follow TheSassyQuilter on Facebook, Pinterest, Bloglovin’, or by email(on sidebar)!

You can follow CottonBliss on Facebook or subscribe to their newsletter!

Do as many as you like, but leave a seperate comment telling me for each one! (These are your entries) That is a possible 6 entries, so good luck Sassy people:)

Contest ends Nov. 26th, at midnight and is open to US and International entries!

Keep it Sassy♥

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10-13-2013

Bee Blocks and a Winner!

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Virtual Quilting Bee Blocks

I am finally done with all 16 blocks for The Virtual Quilting Bee over at Diary of a Quilter!

Here are the last four I wrapped up this weekend:

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Block 13- Designed by Brooke Johnson@PitterPutterStitch. Lots of pieces, but mainly flying geese and HST’s.

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Block 14- Designed by Emily Herrick@CrazyOldLadies. Super easy and love the simple design.

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Block 15- Designed by Lynne Goldsworthy@Lily’sQuilts. Paper pieced and tricky! Pretty block, but the geometry of it all was killing me.

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Block 16-Designed by Cindy Weins@LiveAColorfulLife. Not hard, but took most of my time picking the fabrics. Really liked this one!

All that’s left is to get the top together with the sashing and setting blocks, which I am doing in the aqua dots of this line. I still have tons of Happy Go Lucky fabric left over from the FQ bundle, so I hope to make another quilt from these. I was really surprised how far the bundle went.

Now for what you really want to know…

And the Winner is…

Jessica @juceyj03@gmail.com!

Thanks so much you guys for participating and sharing your quilt and fabric love with our sponsor Cotton Bliss!

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Keep it Sassy♥

Links:

stitch by stitch

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10-09-2013

Simply Triangles and a Giveaway!

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It’s triangle time people!!!

I am finally getting to my lovely stack of Simply Style by V and Co. that has been sitting on my sewing table for months! I have been dying to do a triangle quilt forever and ever and ever…okay maybe only a year, but it felt like forever:)

Green Blue Geometric Fat Quarter Bundle Fabric - Moda - Simply Style

Actually the proper name is an Equilateral Triangle Quilt, not to be confused with the Isosceles Triangle Quilt. Now you got to go back to your math/geometry vault on this one. Equilateral triangles have equal sides and are called 60 degree triangles in the quilt world…well, in all the worlds actually. Isosceles triangles have to have two equal sides and are more like 45 degree triangles to quilters. Think short and stumpy(equilateral) and long and lean(isosceles). Here are some amazing examples of both:

Equilateral triangles byAmanda@MaterialGirlQuilts

Bermuda triangle quilt

Isosceles Triangle Quilt by Ashley@MommybyDayCrafterbyNight.

I would love to make both of these, but let’s tackle the Equilateral first and not get ahead of ourselves! Here is a little sample of the layout:

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In honor of something new, I hope you will check out this new online quilt shop, Cotton Bliss!

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 Cotton Bliss is a new online fabric shop specializing in today’s designer quilting fabrics, notions and patterns.  They have some great prices you guys and plan to add lots more as the shop grows!

Speaking of… If you don’t see what you want, let Stefanie know and chances are she can get it for you. Top-notch service with discount prices are their specialty!

Today’s giveaway is this lovely Simply Style charm pack!

Simply Style Charm Pack

I’m giving you three chances to win on this one:

♥Subscribe to the Cotton Bliss newsletter here and leave a comment on this post letting me know that you did so.

♥Like Cotton Bliss on Facebook here and leave a comment on this post letting me know you did so.

♥For a bonus entry>>> post a link on their Facebook wall here to your favorite product on their site here and leave a comment on this post telling me your favorite too.

I just ordered up some of this delicious Scrumptious by Bonnie and Camille!

Photo: Lookie, lookie. Some tasty fabric treats just arrived. You can get them today for an additional 10% off with code GOBLISS!

Okay, not this whole box, but one of mine is probably in there:)

For  an extra temptation, Stefanie will follow up your newsletter subscription with at 10% off coupon that will be emailed to you to use on your next order!!!

(Contest closes Sunday at 7pm.)
Keep it Sassy♥
Links:

WIP Wednesday at Freshly Pieced      

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09-16-2013

Winner and a Tip!

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And the Winner is…

Shauna!

Congrats Shauna and I hope you will share with us what you make out of this sassy little bundle:)

Now, on to a Sassy Tip;) You may have noticed this hasn’t really been a weekly occurrence…okay, okay not even monthly! *wince* Well, here it is anyway:

If you are having trouble threading a needle try it from the other side. One side of the eye is always a little bigger!

Make sure to check out the Quilt Parade over at Happy Quilting today, so many gorgeous Star Surrounds!

Keep it Sassy♥

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05-13-2013

And the Winner is…

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Congratulations to Ellie!!!

She just won a…

 12 piece, Hello Gorgeous fat quarter bundle by Melissa Ybarra for Windham Fabrics!

Thanks to everyone who entered the contest. I truly appreciate all your kind comments and participation♥

And don’t worry, there will definitely be more give-a-way fun to come!

Come back this week for Part 3- Are we there yet? Machine finishing your binding, Sassy Tip of the Week and more quilty goodness.

Keep it Sassy!

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05-10-2013

Fabric Give-a-way!

Hello Gorgeous….It’s Friday!

And what could make the weekend any better than winning some free fabric!

The Sassy Quilter’s Facebook page is up and running and I would love to get 100 Likes:)

Sooooooo…. to win this contest all you have to do is

leave a comment AND like my Facebook page!

You have to comment on this post(that’s how the computer picks the winner), not another post or my FB page.

If you have already liked my page, just comment and you are set.

And what do you win???

A  lovely……..

12 piece, Hello Gorgeous fat quarter bundle by Melissa Ybarra for Windham Fabrics.

The contest runs through Sunday at 12pm. Winner will be posted on Monday.

Good Luck♥

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04-22-2013

And the Winner is…

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Congratulations Rachel Rand!!!

You have won the Free, Fabric, Friday Give-a-way!

I will be emailing you for your address so I can put those in the mail ASAP!

Definitely come back and show us what you make with these:)

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